Chapter One Ashley's Blog
Chapter Two Stacy's Blog
Chapter Three Johanna's Blog
Chapter Four Merewyn's Blog
Chapter Five L.N. Scott's Blog
Chapter Six L. S. Broomfield's Blog
Chapter Two Stacy's Blog
Chapter Three Johanna's Blog
Chapter Four Merewyn's Blog
Chapter Five L.N. Scott's Blog
Chapter Six L. S. Broomfield's Blog
Father Giovanni felt Sera’s hand on his wound;
her warm touch was sending warmth throughout his body causing him to feel rejuvenation.
He opened his eyes and looked at the body that now lay on the ground before
him. "Sera, what have you done, you just knocked out Renzo!" He
exclaimed.
"Father, he was banging on the door
trying to break in, I didn't know what to do, quick help me turn him over so I
can look at the wound and tend to him." Sera dropped to her knees and
tossed aside the weapon, she used parts of her clothing to blot at the spot on
his head and pressed it to the wound to try and stop the bleeding.
"I'm so sorry father, please forgive
me."
"It's alright my child, he will come
to shortly, demons never stay down long."
"Demons!" Sera dropped his head
on the concrete floor and stood quickly then backed away, "You didn't tell
me he was a demon."
Father Giovanni pulled Renzo's body to a
sitting position against the wall then came over to Sera's and placed his hands
on either side of her arms, "My child, I've known this man for several
years, he's a child of God. He will not hurt you and he will help protect us
from the men who await to kill us outside."
"No father, no. Demons…" She
couldn’t speak, her words were caught in her throat and she began to shudder.
"I..I can't…"
"Sera stop, this one is different, and
he’s not like the rest now come, help me help him. You owe it to me." Father
Giovanni walked back to Renzo and started to lightly tap on his cheek, "My
son, wake up, it's time to face your fears."
It was as if he was being summoned from
the maker up above, Renzo's eyes fluttered open and for a brief quick moment he
was at piece, and then he saw her.
"You! You hit me in the head,
Father, I have to get you to safety, this witch will surly kill you if we keep
you around her. Come, I know a back way out of this church." Renzo
shuffled to stand on his feet and regain his balance, he knew he needed to help
the only one who brought him safety these last years but how had he been bested
by a female?
"Renzo my son stop..." Father
Giovanni was cut off when Sera stepped forward in a huff of rage.
"Me? I will hurt him, I think not,
you are the one he said will bring us great danger, you are the demon! Leave
us, go."
"Sera, I told you Renzo..."
Father Giovanni again tried to protest but was denied a voice when Renzo
stepped in front of him; he now watched two of his parishioners face off in a yelling
match.
"He is bleeding; I assume you are
the one to blame for this, Witch!"
"You have been chasing us; my family
warned me about the likes of your kind, I should begin casting you out."
"Cast me out and no one will be able
to save your pretty little bottom from the men who are coming down those stairs
outside."
On and on the two of them went, the
verbal sparring match becoming incessant, Father Giovanni looked around the
room for a distraction, something to make them both stop and listen to reason.
He saw a bucket in the corner of the room and that's what got him thinking. He
walked over and grabbed the roped handle, he water swished back and forth while
he hauled it across the room, splashing onto the concrete floor. The father
leaned down and silently said to himself, Lord, forgive me for my sins.
With one fluid motion he lifted the bucket and the water came out and soaked
Renzo and Sera. The two of them both turned to Father Giovanni and looked at
him with their mouths hanging open and shock in their eyes.
"Father!" The both cried.
"My children, now that I may
speak." He turned the bucket upside down and used it for a chair. He sat
down and placed his hands on his knees and motioned for each of them to take a
seat beside him. "Renzo, this is Sera, like you, she has no one to turn to
but this church and myself, she's been abandoned and is looking for shelter.
Sera, Renzo like you is a bit different and is running from his past. Don't
judge him for what you see on the outside, he's nothing like his family. Now my
children, there are people that if I'm not mistaken are right outside our door,
we need to devise a plan and save ourselves. Renzo, do you have any
suggestions?"
Renzo and Sera looked back and forth at
one another for a few moments in silence. Neither of them wanted to speak first
but both knew someone needed to say something.
"I saw them come into the church, I
followed them, there is only a couple I didn't know they were after you or I
would have taken them out while in the street. If we can distract them then I
should be able to take care of them. " Renzo turned to Sera and looked at
her pointedly, "Are you any good at distractions, Witch?"
"I have a name, and it is Sera. I
can be a distraction, I mean, I could make one yes."
The three of them talked for a few
minutes and devised a plan, and it was in the nick of time because the
footsteps of the intruders could be heard. Renzo stood first and lined the two
of them up behind him, "Sera, just like we discussed alright?"
She slowly nodded and looked up into his
eyes. She could tell he cared but why, didn't all demons want death and
destruction of the humans anyway, what did her life and the father's matter to
him in the end?
Renzo opened the door and nodded his head,
Sera, lifted her hands and started to say a small incantation he had instructed
her to say in a low whispered breath. A whirlwind began to move through the
hallway, dust and debris picked up through the air and Renzo watched it pass by
their door. He moved out of the way and pushed Sera and Father Giovanni out
into the hall way, "Down the hallway and into the other corridor like we
discussed Sera, get him to safety, you promised!"
Renzo waited until he couldn't see them
any longer and stepped into the hallway. The whirlwind was dissipating and he
was looking into the faces of three robbed men holding weapons, humans.
"Give us the witch and we'll let you
go." One said, he was pointing a spear at Renzo's body.
"We know she's in the room with you,
stop protecting her." The other spoke out.
"Who cares, hang him too!" The
third laughed.
Renzo took a step forward, his eyes
trailed the three of them slowly, one...two...three….three...two...one...back
and forth. "How about this, I kill you, and save her a life on the run,
and I feed your bodies to the animals. Yes, that sounds better."
- Within moments Renzo's body shifts and is now not quite human, not quite animal, demon. His nails have bulged out to a yellow colored hard material, his skin looked of brown leather, his hair long, animal like. His teeth now pointed and sharp. He let out a howl that shook through the church and could be heard in the rafters in the belfries.
The three men looked at what had just
transformed before them, the one in the middle dropped his sword and began to
turn and run, Renzo jumped from his spot and landed on this man's back, pushing
him into the ground. He reached down and grabbed the human's head and pulled
the sound of his spine severing and cracking, his head now in between Renzo's
two palms and being tossed to the side of the hallway.
Renzo turned and looked at the other two,
the one with the spear charged at Renzo and nicked his shoulder, the spear
broke off into Renzo's muscle. Renzo's hand went out and grabbed the man, his
hand went around the humans neck and began to squeeze. He lifted the man off of
the ground, the man began to scream, he begged for mercy and Renzo simply
laughed. Renzo watched the man’s feet swing back and forth fighting to break
free as he took his last breath while suffocating in Renzo's grasp.
The third man was frozen in place. Unable
to move from shock and fear. Renzo circled him, he watched his eyes, he wanted
him to see every move Renzo made. "You wanted to kill me, so now I'm
killing you. You wanted to hurt Sera, what did she do to you?"
Silence, that was all that came from the
man.
"I asked you a question,
speak!" Renzo roared out.
"She's a witch. She must die."
In a quick motion Renzo picked up the
sword from the ground and swung it around his body and sliced the man in half.
He watched the top half of him fall to the floor then watched the lower half
topple over right after.
Slowly his body started to shift back to
it's normal size and shape, he hated when he went into demonic form, he hated
the looks and stares. That wasn't him, but it did get the job done.
Sera watched from down the hall, she
heard the screams and every word that had transpired.
"Sera where are you going?"
Father Giovanni asked.
"To help him clean, he's
wounded."
